At the end of October, the REBORN Closing Conference  & DanubeChance 2.0 Opening Conference organized by IFKA Public Benefit Non Profit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry in Budapest.

After the official welcome speech by Maria Baracsi – coordinato rof DanubeChance 2.0 prject- , the firs discussed topic was the +entrepreneurship challenges in the Danube region (EUSDR). In this topic the presenters were:

Marius- Valentin Niculae – Project Officer, INTERREG DANUBE Programme JS
Jaroslava Szüdi - EUSDR PAC7 coordinator, Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic
Nirvana Kapitan Butković EUSDR PAC8 coordinator, Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Crafts
Mária Baracsi, DTP Thematic Pole 3 leader, IFKA Public Benefit Non-Profit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry

This was followed by two roundtable section.
The first roundtable section theme was the “policies enabling preventive restructuring and second-chance entrepreneurship”. The following topics discussed in the first roundtable section :

New EU Directive on second-chance and restructuring // Ondrej Vondracek, Legal and Policy Officer, European Commission, DG JUST Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (Belgium)
Second-chance entrepreneurship in European policies // Valeria Rainisio and Pietro De Martino, coordinator of REBORN project, FILSE Financial Agency of Liguria Region (Italy)
Comparative legal framework of company re-structuring in case of insolvency // Dr. György Kovács, Legal Expert, IFKA Public Benefit Non-Profit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry (Hungary)

The second roundtable section’s theme was the “Initiatives enabling preventive re-structuring in Europe”.
In this section the participants heard some examples from EU projects:

PRE-SOLVE PREventing business failure and insolvency project // Dirk Vantyghem, director, EUROCHAMBERS
Early Warning Europe // Morten Moller, Project Manager, Business Development Centre Central Denmark
DanubeChance2.0 Preventive restructuring and Second-chance entrepreneurship opportunities in the Danube region // Mária Baracsi, Head of Unit of International Cooperation, IFKA Public Benefit Nonprofit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry

In the afternoon there was an Interactive workshop where the speakers :

Maria Giovanna Laudani, Pietro De Martino and Valeria Rainisio, FILSE Financial Agency of Liguria Region (Italy)
Almudena Sánchez Ferrer, Project manager, CEEIM – Murcia Business Innovation Centre (Spain)
Danuta Sulowska, Department of Economy and International Cooperation in the Lubelskie, Marshal Office of Lubelskie Voivodeship / Aneta Pieczykolan, expert, Marshal Office of Lubelskie Voivodeship (Poland)
Mária Baracsi, Project manager, IFKA Public Benefit Non-Profit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry (Hungary)
Alain Demarez, Project manager, Agency for Enterprise & Innovation, Alain Piekarek, Judge at Commercial Court of Liége (Belgium)
Kostas Karamarkos, Project manager, Regional Development Fund on behalf of Region of Western Macedonia (Greece)

talked about Regional policy solutions to boost second-chance entrepreneurship across Europe (Regional Action Plans including good practices from Europe)
The last section of the conference was: Creative facilitation – What to learn from failure?
Where the speakers talked about their own experiences related to the failure.

Andrea Bottino, Ligurcapital, Venture Capital Fund
Zoltán Oletics, project manager, Magyar Innováció és Hatékonyság Nonprofit Kft.
Dr. Antal Károlyi, partner, Traction Tribe
Gyöngyi Király, business development manager, Széchenyi Venture Capital Fund Management, ACCELERATOR project (INTERREG DANUBE Programme, 1st call)
Anett Nagy, coordinator, NewGenerationSkills Unlocking the potentials for business and social innovation in the Danube Region by equipping young people with new generation skills (DTP project), Újbuda Municipality (INTERREG DANUBE Programme, 1st call)